I think someone slipped writing 'slipping'. Also, I would suggest that the author's grasp of English grammar is yet another thing which appears to be slipping.
Finding the crack makes the ads go away. Google, my son, google...
Support good closed-source software developers. Opera has come along amazingly since version 4 -- their dedication to their product is laudable, and it should be rewarded and praised.
If you cannot afford to support good closed-source software developers, support good open-source software developers.
This story hits far too close to home as I just spent the last two evenings attempting to install my Promise ATA/133 card, along with my new Maxtor 160gb drive.. and a new install of Windows. Although I had the most recent drivers, and specified them on install, Windows XPlod could not manage to complete an installation without a hard freeze, blue screen, or other nonsense. I tried with Linux, but only managed to lose my MP3 collection on my other drive.
FYI, my backup server has a Promise Ultra133 TX2 with two Maxtor 160GB drives, running stripped-down Mandrake Linux quite happily.
Personally I think that ATA133's biggest advantage is the support for drives over 137GB. The speed constraint is a secondary advantage.
How come Microsoft never included any kind of antivirus program per default in any windows package?
I can imagine that:
vruschck.exe found a VIrus in teh progam 'openofiice.exe'. ITs not a microsoft progam so its must be the terorists agan. PLEase wiat while windos formast yourr particles.
I couple of months back, I was making a 320GB network backup server for my house. The Promise Ultra133 TX2 supported both drives larger than 137GB and Linux (as advertised).
So, I went ahead and bought the card and two Maxtor 160GB drives. They didn't work with a basic Mandrake install. At this point I emailed Promise tech support. A couple of kernel options (found by searching Google groups) added to lilo and... It recognised the drives as 128GB. Great.
As it turned out, Mandrake 8.1's kernel doesn't support drives larger than 128GB, but a new kernel later and they were working to full capacity.
A whole week later, I got a reply from Promise tech support suggesting the kernel options I had used.
The moral of the story is: Linux support means it will work, but perhaps at reduced functionality.
And, of course, having documentation available online is kind of useful.
In many ways, Microsoft's introduction of the infamous Version 6.0 on August 1st might be a watershed for Linux desktop usage in business.
Are you looking forward to an increase in private-sector uptake as Microsoft makes its licensing arguably less attractive, or do you feel there are still 'holes to fill' WRT the feasibility of Linux desktop usage in business?
how do you prove in court that receiving a 5 kilobyte email message costs your company $50?
They don't have to prove anything. MoFo are providing what essentially is an unsolicited mail reading service for $50 a pop. They set their charge and (IAANAL) as long as they make their charges known before the offending spam is sent, they are able to seek payment from the offenders.
Eitherway, $50 for an lawyer to read/parse/delete/abuse@ a single UCE seems pretty reasonable to me. How much does an international lawyer firm charge per hour?
[...]the lawsuit may be frivolous, aimed at stifling criticism, but for Robert Novak, the founder and owner of PetsWarehouse.com, the reputation of a company is at stake.
My estimation is the damage done to the company by the critical comments could be put at 10, whereas the damage done by bringing a lawsuit against your customers would probably be closer to 200.
Their intelligence rivals my elbow.
Let me get this straight...
on
Self-Heating Can
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· Score: 3, Interesting
The huge flaw in their design is that it contains Calcium Oxide. AKA Lime. AKA Quicklime. AKA a substance used in manufacturing steel and paper, in glassmaking, in waste treatment, in insecticides, and as an industrial alkali.
Not something I'd like near my coffee, thanks!
When mixed with water it turns into Slaked Lime and heat. So the waste problem goes from recycling cans to recycling cans full of Slaked Lime! Oh well, perhaps the sewage and effluent treatment industry would buy it off the recyclers?
What are we going to be left with that commands value? What can't we copy?
Emotion, love, knowledge, wisdom.
These cannot be copied, nor faked. For example, the music industry may change for the better, or worse, but music will always exist. The RIAA and 'their senators' will pretend that the music industry is music until they are red in the face. The music industry will die from lack of emotion in their product rather than from P2P sharing.
Note that freedom and justice are missing from my list. These are things which can be bought, and, from my point of view, are close to lost.
"They don't want the voice of reason spoken, folks, coz otherwise we'd be free.
Otherwise, we wouldn't believe their fucking horse-shit lies, nor the fucking
propaganda machine - the mainstream media - and buy their horse-shit products
that we don't fucking need, and become a Third World consumer fucking plantation,
which is what we're becoming. -- Bill Hicks, 1991
By Gary Ruderman
Special to the Tribune Published March 11, 2002
The field guide to the universe is slowly taking shape at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Batavia.
Hundreds of gigabytes of digital pictures are delivered weekly to Fermilab for compilation that, over the next three years, will deliver the most comprehensive map of the hundreds of millions of galaxies that make up what astronomer Carl Sagan called the "cosmos."
Like the human genome project used microscopes to look deep within us, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey uses telescopes to look toward the universe to discover our place.
The Sloan survey's results are as immense as the cosmos.
The main telescope, in the mountains of south- central New Mexico, is picking up light from 14 billion years ago--a time when the universe was just 6 percent of its current age. Focusing on one-quarter of the sky in what is known as the northern galactic hemisphere, the Sloan survey (www.sdss.org) has compiled enough data on the heavens in the last 36 months to fill 1,000 laptop computers, each with a 10 gigabyte hard drive, and it's just 35 percent of the way through its mission.
"This is what we call industrial astronomy," said Chris Stoughton, the head of data processing and distribution at Fermilab. "In the old days you'd take 10 pictures a night and write a paper" on the findings. "This was one-by-one, hand astronomy.
"Sloan produces 600 pictures through five different filters every hour. That's industrial astronomy, and enough to keep an astronomer busy for a year."
And while Sloan's work may not affect our daily lives, its discoveries are shaking up the world of astronomy. In addition to locating quasars at the beginning of time (about 15 billion years ago), Sloan scientists have identified new star structures that could alter how we view the galaxy and a new class of celestial objects called brown dwarfs.
Scientists from Fermilab and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York recently presented their findings on the discovery of new star structures in the halo of the Milky Way. Isolated from the 5 million stars logged so far by the Sloan study, the new stars appear to be clumped in a "puffier" configuration rather than what we're used to seeing as a flatter, spherical look of the galaxy.
Before the latest Sloan findings, the first and only "cool" brown dwarf star, which has properties of a planet and a star, was discovered in 1995. They're called "free floating" structures because they don't orbit a star or planet. The most recent discoveries are a mere 30 light-years away.
"They are still so new to astronomy that they require a new vocabulary," said astronomer Tom Geballe of the Gemini observatory in Hawaii. "The name `methane dwarf' has emerged, because of the dramatic presence of bands of methane in their spectra. Methane is characteristic of giant planets, like Jupiter, but it never appears in normal stars--they are much too hot--or even in most brown dwarfs."
World's most powerful camera
While there are many areas of interest to the non-astronomer or astrophysicist, the camera and the information it gathers are probably most interesting to the technologist.
The digital camera built for the Sloan Survey is the world's most powerful, according to Jim Gunn, professor of astrophysics at Princeton University, a Sloan project scientist and builder of the camera. The digital camera detects 7 out of 10 photons (particles of light without mass) hitting the lens, netting an efficiency approaching 70 percent. The efficiency of a standard film camera is about one-tenth of 1 percent, Gunn explained.
What makes the Sloan camera so efficient is its use of charge-coupled devices. These light-sensitive squares detect the intensity of incoming photons and convert light into digital signals. Each detector is rated at 4 megapixels, giving the 30-CCD array a whopping 120-megapixels (120 million pixels) sensitivity. The higher the number of pixels, the greater the resolution.
Gunn said the array of CCDs took four years to accumulate partially because of exacting specifications that meant as few as 1 of 3 CCDs shipped from the manufacturer were accepted. "They're very expensive and we have only a few spares," Gunn said.
The CCDs were half of the telescope's $5 million cost, paid for by the Japanese government's Monbukagakusho scholarship program. The entire survey will cost around $85 million, with the largest private donation of around $20 million coming from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Another $42 million came from Fermilab through the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Science Foundation. Other underwriters include Johns Hopkins University, the University of Chicago, the University of Washington, New Mexico State University, the U.S. Naval Observatory and Germany's Max Planck Institutes.
The 700-pound camera, which took seven years to build, is a meter-long, vacuum-sealed cylinder cooled by liquid nitrogen to keep moisture out. In addition to the two mirrors found in a reflector telescope, two lenses focus incoming light to the 30 CCDs that make up the camera. Two spectrographs are mounted nearby.
A fifth of the CCDs are receptors for ultraviolet light, and another three-fifths captures green, red and near-infrared light. The remaining CCDs concentrate on getting what's called far-infrared light, and that's where amazing things happen.
That "far" category reaches back almost to the beginning of time.
Overall, the Sloan telescope picks up light from an immense number of galaxies and quasars, estimated by the astronomers at 100 million. They range in age from as young as two-tenths of the age of the universe to events that occurred just a billion years after the universe was formed and whose light is just now reaching the camera.
When a night of observation is over, the millions of bytes of data are written to 20 gigabyte data storage tapes in a protocol known as flexible image transport system. The findings of five CCDs are recorded on one tape.
Each tape and a backup copy are sent overnight to Fermilab, where they are transferred to a host of Linux servers. Stoughton said the amount of data is small compared with Fermilab's other projects but is the largest capacity project ever assembled in astronomy.
Most images go unseen
Surprisingly, with all the money and time spent in the quest for a road map of the celestial past, "most of the pictures have never been looked at," Stoughton said. Stoughton said that because of the immense amount of information seeing any part of it would take a lifetime.
Instead, investigators are writing programs to look for specifics like "low surface brightness galaxies," which could be described as wide--not bright--galaxies.
So with all the data that few have seen, and few practical business applications, it seems to raise the question as to why are they mapping the universe.
"It's hard to say why people should study astronomy," said Gunn. "But in the scheme of human intellect, it is important to know where we came from and what's likely to be in store for us."
Slashdot Mirror
If what they claim is true, why has their server melted?
If you cannot afford to support good closed-source software developers, support good open-source software developers.
Mod this idiot leech down.
Personally I think that ATA133's biggest advantage is the support for drives over 137GB. The speed constraint is a secondary advantage.
Woohoo, I'll reply to my own post with the link to google's cache of the radlight download page.
"over 750,000 copies of RadLight had been downloaded from CNET as of February 2002."
I can imagine that:
vruschck.exe found a VIrus in teh progam 'openofiice.exe'.
ITs not a microsoft progam so its must be the terorists agan.
PLEase wiat while windos formast yourr particles.
So, I went ahead and bought the card and two Maxtor 160GB drives. They didn't work with a basic Mandrake install. At this point I emailed Promise tech support. A couple of kernel options (found by searching Google groups) added to lilo and... It recognised the drives as 128GB. Great.
As it turned out, Mandrake 8.1's kernel doesn't support drives larger than 128GB, but a new kernel later and they were working to full capacity.
A whole week later, I got a reply from Promise tech support suggesting the kernel options I had used.
The moral of the story is: Linux support means it will work, but perhaps at reduced functionality.
And, of course, having documentation available online is kind of useful.
Here's a free ebook on Maelzel's Chess Player, written by Edgar Allan Poe. It looks pretty good.
A webpage should be viewable in any browser. Anything else is Microsoft cock-sucking.
(Waits for modding down)
Now, aside from the rather handy 'listening protection' incorperated into this CD, here are canonical high-street prices:
CD: £16.99 ($24.46)
Anyone fancy paying $36 for Celine Dion?SACD (no extra content): £24.99 ($35.98)
- Enumerate the possible positions:
- Against a wall.
- Lying down.
- Standing up.
- Sitting down.
- etc.
- Weight the enumeration by studying their cache of images.
- Produce the weighted average as above.
Thus, the average blowjob is performed 1.4137166941154 radians (81 degrees) to the vertical, nearby a wall and a chair.Tricky.
Free love from Google costs $8,833.95. Damn, that's a hell of a lot of free love.
Are you looking forward to an increase in private-sector uptake as Microsoft makes its licensing arguably less attractive, or do you feel there are still 'holes to fill' WRT the feasibility of Linux desktop usage in business?
Eitherway, $50 for an lawyer to read/parse/delete/abuse@ a single UCE seems pretty reasonable to me. How much does an international lawyer firm charge per hour?
Jan Fennell
Gloria Thomas
Bruce Caughey and Dean Winstanley
Their intelligence rivals my elbow.
Not something I'd like near my coffee, thanks!
When mixed with water it turns into Slaked Lime and heat. So the waste problem goes from recycling cans to recycling cans full of Slaked Lime! Oh well, perhaps the sewage and effluent treatment industry would buy it off the recyclers?
Who'd have thought the magnetic pole would be so disgusted with the proposed duty on media as to leave Canada!
USA: SSSCA.
Given the either/or choice, I'd rather pay stupid fees on media.
So, as I say: Canadians should be smug!
- IPCop lacks Richard Morrell.
- IPCop fixes the long-known USB ADSL bug with Smoothwall -- which cripples upload speed to 3K/s instead of 30K/s.
- No nagware, adverts, requirements to donate to get basic support, etc.
- Smoothwall GPL is treated and referred to as 'trialware' by the Smoothwall development team, and is essentially dead as GPL project.
Smoothwall is in my opinion perhaps the most ungraceful transition from a pure open-source project to a business in recent history.These cannot be copied, nor faked. For example, the music industry may change for the better, or worse, but music will always exist. The RIAA and 'their senators' will pretend that the music industry is music until they are red in the face. The music industry will die from lack of emotion in their product rather than from P2P sharing.
Note that freedom and justice are missing from my list. These are things which can be bought, and, from my point of view, are close to lost.
"They don't want the voice of reason spoken, folks, coz otherwise we'd be free. Otherwise, we wouldn't believe their fucking horse-shit lies, nor the fucking propaganda machine - the mainstream media - and buy their horse-shit products that we don't fucking need, and become a Third World consumer fucking plantation, which is what we're becoming. -- Bill Hicks, 1991
Yikes, Bill Hicks quote overload!
The field guide to the universe is slowly taking shape at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Batavia.
Hundreds of gigabytes of digital pictures are delivered weekly to Fermilab for compilation that, over the next three years, will deliver the most comprehensive map of the hundreds of millions of galaxies that make up what astronomer Carl Sagan called the "cosmos."
Like the human genome project used microscopes to look deep within us, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey uses telescopes to look toward the universe to discover our place.
The Sloan survey's results are as immense as the cosmos.
The main telescope, in the mountains of south- central New Mexico, is picking up light from 14 billion years ago--a time when the universe was just 6 percent of its current age. Focusing on one-quarter of the sky in what is known as the northern galactic hemisphere, the Sloan survey (www.sdss.org) has compiled enough data on the heavens in the last 36 months to fill 1,000 laptop computers, each with a 10 gigabyte hard drive, and it's just 35 percent of the way through its mission.
"This is what we call industrial astronomy," said Chris Stoughton, the head of data processing and distribution at Fermilab. "In the old days you'd take 10 pictures a night and write a paper" on the findings. "This was one-by-one, hand astronomy.
"Sloan produces 600 pictures through five different filters every hour. That's industrial astronomy, and enough to keep an astronomer busy for a year."
And while Sloan's work may not affect our daily lives, its discoveries are shaking up the world of astronomy. In addition to locating quasars at the beginning of time (about 15 billion years ago), Sloan scientists have identified new star structures that could alter how we view the galaxy and a new class of celestial objects called brown dwarfs.
Scientists from Fermilab and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York recently presented their findings on the discovery of new star structures in the halo of the Milky Way. Isolated from the 5 million stars logged so far by the Sloan study, the new stars appear to be clumped in a "puffier" configuration rather than what we're used to seeing as a flatter, spherical look of the galaxy.
Before the latest Sloan findings, the first and only "cool" brown dwarf star, which has properties of a planet and a star, was discovered in 1995. They're called "free floating" structures because they don't orbit a star or planet. The most recent discoveries are a mere 30 light-years away.
"They are still so new to astronomy that they require a new vocabulary," said astronomer Tom Geballe of the Gemini observatory in Hawaii. "The name `methane dwarf' has emerged, because of the dramatic presence of bands of methane in their spectra. Methane is characteristic of giant planets, like Jupiter, but it never appears in normal stars--they are much too hot--or even in most brown dwarfs."
World's most powerful camera
While there are many areas of interest to the non-astronomer or astrophysicist, the camera and the information it gathers are probably most interesting to the technologist.
The digital camera built for the Sloan Survey is the world's most powerful, according to Jim Gunn, professor of astrophysics at Princeton University, a Sloan project scientist and builder of the camera. The digital camera detects 7 out of 10 photons (particles of light without mass) hitting the lens, netting an efficiency approaching 70 percent. The efficiency of a standard film camera is about one-tenth of 1 percent, Gunn explained.
What makes the Sloan camera so efficient is its use of charge-coupled devices. These light-sensitive squares detect the intensity of incoming photons and convert light into digital signals. Each detector is rated at 4 megapixels, giving the 30-CCD array a whopping 120-megapixels (120 million pixels) sensitivity. The higher the number of pixels, the greater the resolution.
Gunn said the array of CCDs took four years to accumulate partially because of exacting specifications that meant as few as 1 of 3 CCDs shipped from the manufacturer were accepted. "They're very expensive and we have only a few spares," Gunn said.
The CCDs were half of the telescope's $5 million cost, paid for by the Japanese government's Monbukagakusho scholarship program. The entire survey will cost around $85 million, with the largest private donation of around $20 million coming from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Another $42 million came from Fermilab through the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Science Foundation. Other underwriters include Johns Hopkins University, the University of Chicago, the University of Washington, New Mexico State University, the U.S. Naval Observatory and Germany's Max Planck Institutes.
The 700-pound camera, which took seven years to build, is a meter-long, vacuum-sealed cylinder cooled by liquid nitrogen to keep moisture out. In addition to the two mirrors found in a reflector telescope, two lenses focus incoming light to the 30 CCDs that make up the camera. Two spectrographs are mounted nearby.
A fifth of the CCDs are receptors for ultraviolet light, and another three-fifths captures green, red and near-infrared light. The remaining CCDs concentrate on getting what's called far-infrared light, and that's where amazing things happen.
That "far" category reaches back almost to the beginning of time.
Overall, the Sloan telescope picks up light from an immense number of galaxies and quasars, estimated by the astronomers at 100 million. They range in age from as young as two-tenths of the age of the universe to events that occurred just a billion years after the universe was formed and whose light is just now reaching the camera.
When a night of observation is over, the millions of bytes of data are written to 20 gigabyte data storage tapes in a protocol known as flexible image transport system. The findings of five CCDs are recorded on one tape.
Each tape and a backup copy are sent overnight to Fermilab, where they are transferred to a host of Linux servers. Stoughton said the amount of data is small compared with Fermilab's other projects but is the largest capacity project ever assembled in astronomy.
Most images go unseen
Surprisingly, with all the money and time spent in the quest for a road map of the celestial past, "most of the pictures have never been looked at," Stoughton said. Stoughton said that because of the immense amount of information seeing any part of it would take a lifetime.
Instead, investigators are writing programs to look for specifics like "low surface brightness galaxies," which could be described as wide--not bright--galaxies.
So with all the data that few have seen, and few practical business applications, it seems to raise the question as to why are they mapping the universe.
"It's hard to say why people should study astronomy," said Gunn. "But in the scheme of human intellect, it is important to know where we came from and what's likely to be in store for us."
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